Ok, I'm non-stat loss red on my main. I'm running around the main dungeons and such looking for duels to pass the time. I go to Deceit and on third lvl I see Sysic grey. So, being the agressive type of guy that I am, I attack him.Thankfully, the story doesn't end there. Six days later, I'm running through Deceit and guess who I see grey? Yup, Sysic. However, he's fighting the same being-blue-healed-by-4-japs guy that I was just fighting when I'd gone grey looking for a fight. So, I wait and when he's obviously owned the guy, we both simultaneously offer each other a duel.He runs down to the 4th lvl, but eventually stops to fight. Good man... 1on1 as god intended. Well, after about 30 seconds someone else runs in and starts attacking me. Well, it was a dex monkey with low resist, so I drop him real quick. Sysic, of course, didn't stop because of the additional help. I wouldnt' have if I were attacked either, so I'm not blaming him.... yet.
Now, he runs to 3rd, back to 4th, back to 3rd, etc etc etc. Finally, he stays on 3rd long enough for a friend of his to run up and heal him. After I said "no 1on1?", the friend stopped healing. That spelled the end for Sysic, because a lich spawned a decided to interupt the 1 heal that could have saved Sysic. Anyhow, since he didn't stop in a 2on1 against me, I didn't stop with one against him. I loot as he gets ressed. By this time, there are three people with him.
As soon as he's ressed, they all explosion and bring up a flamestrike or ebolt - that was my cue to leave. So I recall to bucs, grab my keys, drop off the loot and reg back up. I recall to Bucs to drop off my keys to find Sysic there with his three friends and at least two demons. Gee... all that for lil ole me.
To make a long story short, in a 4on1 with demons on the other side, I still didn't recall. I ran across the server line to try and separate one of them from the group so I could get a kill, but naturally when one realized he was alone, he ran or suddenly the rest showed up (I assume because of an icq to them of where he was getting raped).
Anyhow, the bottom line is that if you have to have you and three friends (plus demons) to kill one guy, then YOU are a TOOL. And yes, Sysic, if you have 4 people - I'm allowed to go over server lines. Nice try with the 50 para's tho... next time you might want to
He goes, regs up, and we head to the 2nd lvl dueling room. Here's a quick recount of what happens:
1> We prepare by Blessing ourselves, Cursing the other and getting up Reactive Armor
2> We both prep Explosion
3> It gets dark, so we both Nightsight
4> He preps Explosion again as I prep Ebolt (and drink a 14 pt GH)
5> Hally, Ebolt, Hally, Ebolt (as he tries to heal)
6> 1 corpse
I didn't even have to heal. I loot and res him. Turns out, he takes the loss well, is relatively cool about the situation and asks for us to duel whenever. He actually says, "I'd like to duel until I'm broke from re-equipping". Ok, I can admire that - hell, I think I said something just like it when asking for duels on the news page.
Oh well, so he didn't turn out to be a dick. But, was an interesting (to me) conclusion to what had riled me up so much a week before.
Nighthawk